Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

42 FAMILY HERBAL.
tops of the branches, and they grow out of scalv
heads. The seeds arc beautiful, hard, white, and
shining.
The leaves which grow on the stalks of the
blue-bottle, fresh gathered and bruised, will stop
the bleeding of a fresh wound, even if a large
vessel be cut. They are not sufficiently known
for this purpose, but they exceed all other things :
and may save a life where a
had in t
surgeon is not to be
; me for such an accident A distilled
water of the flowers used to be kept in the
but it was of no value. An infusion of
works gently by urine.
shops,
them
There is a large kind of this plant in gardens,
which is called a vulnerary or wound herb. But it
is not so good as this.
The Box Tree. Kuxus.
A COMMON little shrub in our gardens,
and a native of our own country, though not
common in its wild state. With us it grows but
to a small height ; in some other parts of Europe,
it is a tolerably large shrub. The bark is whitish,
the wood yellow ; the leaves small, roundish,
smooth, of a very dark green colour, and very
numerous. The flowers are small and greenish
yellow ; the fruit is litfcle, round, and furnished
with three points.
The wood of the box-tree, and particularly
of the root, is an excellent medicine in all foulnesses
of the blood ; it has the same virtues with
the guiacum, but in a
greater degree.
It is to bo
and con-
given in decoction not made too strong,
finned a long time. There have been instances
of what were called leprosies cured entirely by
this medicine. There is an oil made from it by